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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:44:53 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
>
>> Unless you have a kernel panic, and the system is just halted. Does
>> anyone know if there is something one could do about that?
>
> Isn't there a kernel option to force a reboot in the event of a panic?

BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC may be what you're thinking of.